AgWeek quotes Global Energy Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Sara Vakhshouri from her testimony before the Energy and Natural Resources Committee on the US oil export ban:
Expert witnesses from the Atlantic Council, Rand Corporation, Center for a New American Security, and IHS, a global research company, affirmed that lifting the oil export ban would enhance national security. Representative of the general opinion was testimony by Dr. Sara Vakhshouri, Nonresident Senior Fellow Atlantic Council, who said that with the Middle East in turmoil and confronting terrorist attacks and threats, it’s important to have alternative resources, especially from the U.S.